Secketary

[MyTattooIsBetterThanYours]

It isn’t secketary.

It is SECK-RE-TARY.

It doesn’t matter if you’re the Home Secretary or the Foreign Secretary, you are not a Secketary.

It’s going to be a long night.

Ha ha! One of my peeves too

No K required. Sec - re - tary.

can I add it’s gar- raj not gar - rij

Oh it drives me insane! Can’t believe how many politicians, news readers, tv presenters etc get it wrong!

Sorry I’m a garrij pronouncer - sounds snooty to say gar raj where I’m from 😁

I only put the K in to emphasise the pronunciation but I take your point, as this is pedants’ corner, after all, and we know how things should be.

BBC presenter/commentator this afternoon, by any chance?

Yes, and the rest!

Sec-ret-ry and Garrij.

Sky News. They’re all at it.

Oh I am so glad we are finally discussing this issue. It drives me utterly mad. Radio 4 Today presenters are the worst. They should know better. They used to!

Where I live, people say sec-re-tree

In Scotland it's gar-rij.

Not always. My Scottish DF said gar-aj.

I remember when the BBC had strict standards of pronunciation. Now it’s a free-for-all. The other day, a presenter was unable to say “posthumously” and after several attempts, her co-presenter had to say it for her.

Badly educated. I don't know why the BBC feel everything needs to be dumbed down as if we are all unable to understand anything unless said in simple terms in a regional accent. Patronising.

I say gar-raj for a car related business and gar-rij for the room/building I park my car in.

Its gar-age

My BF says gay-rage.

I'd say gar-ridge or gar-raj depending on circumstance (although I'm not sure what circumstance). Maybe more gar-raj.. Interchangeable. I'm from the SE

I’ve just listened to an audio book. ‘The Names’ which l think is a best seller?

Jewelry pronounced jewlry all the way through. There’s a guy who designs jewelry in it.

14 hours of it!

To me ‘garaaaaj’ smacks of hyper correction. It reminds me of a nun who taught me in primary school who pronounced ‘dessert’ as if she were speaking French (she wasn’t French) as ‘dess-AIR’, and ‘restaurant’ as ‘restaur-ONG’.

Love it! I can just imagine

Joolery bugs me. It's ˈdʒuː(ə)lri].
Resteraunteur is another one. It's rɛst(ə)rəˈtəː

It’s ‘restauranteur’, though.

It’s actually restaurateur - no ‘n’ in it.

Badly educated.

My ex was always banging on about how great his could NOT be bettered private education was compared to my utterly shameful state education, but he still called his mother the matriack of the family. And ate like an animal in the zoo. Actually, that's an insult to animals. And zoos. I had to replace the carpet when he left.

I started listening to a programme on the radio a while ago about battries. I had to switch it off in the end. My throat was sore from shouting "It's battEries, you fuckers!". There's that state education for you